‘F*** off Europe, were all voting OUT’ England fans ‘chant anti-EU songs at Euro 2016

I don't know how many of you read the Sky News website. On their page today they have an article that says that David Cameron has said that if the UK leaves the EU pensions and free bus passes for the elderly will be at risk. You should read the comments. Last time I checked there were over 330 comments. Almost every single person commenting is going to vote to Leave. There are around eight people who have commented who plan to vote Remain.

You do know that immigrants had a net contribution of £20 to the treasury between 2001 and 2011 right? Paying in the money that is spent on the NHS, on benefits for British people, on schools, public transport and more

£20 billion sorry, thinking quicker than I could type

You do know that immigrants had a net contribution of £20 to the treasury between 2001 and 2011 right? Paying in the money that is spent on the NHS, on benefits for British people, on schools, public transport and more

Does this factor in the unemployment benefits paid to around 2 million unemployed people that would have had jobs if there was less population or the quality of life decrease due to the strain on housing and services?

It is also worth noting that despite immigrants from the EU on average being better qualified than people in the UK, 60% of immigrants from places such as France and Germany have degrees, and 25% of immgrants from Countries such as Poland have degrees

It is quite odd to argue in favour of the present system on the basis that immigrants tend to be well educated given that, if we had control of our own borders, we could require them to be well educated if we so wished, and in fields which our economy needs.

It wasn't an argument but a fact, immigration from the EU benefits us with the best and the brightest coming here for jobs in areas such as industry, science and R&D, and the free movement of labour allows this to happen easily without hassle and fuss. These people aren't coming here on a whim hoping for a job, but because they have a job, a job that will positively contribute to the UK economy and a job that may improve UK businesses.

If you'd like to get into the effect of an EU immigration bias on British science and R&D, I commend to you the recent comments of Sir James Dyson, whom one would expect to know about this sort of thing.

I always find it funny... despite labour representing working class people, they don't half hate the fact that most of the people they represent are anti-immigration and EU.

It's akin to the conservatives, who by all rights should be mostly Pro-remain due to their voting core bloc, seem to be extremely pro-leave to gain votes

I love political hypocrisy sometimes

The Labour Party is an internationalist party which believes in equality and social justice. Why therefore would they ever be anti-immigrant.

Because they're supposed to be socialist and pro-worker..... and you're suppose to represent your voters, not your own ideals at the end of the day.

If you're an unskilled worker and an immigrant undercuts your pay because they're willing to live in overcrowded housing... you're hardly going to be pro-immigration are you?

And thirteen Nobel Prize winners yesterday said leaving would put Uk science, to quote them, "in jeopardy", I think I would trust the Nobel Prize winners over one man, a man who's company tries to pay as little tax as possible, actively trying to avoid contributing to the economy of the Country it operates in.

Strain on housing and services is not down to immigrants, bear in mind we had high levels of immigration before even joining the EEC as it was then due to commonwealth immigration after World War Two. The strain on housing and services is due to the chronic under funding in these areas by all Governments since 1979. There would be no strain if we actually funded schools, the NHS, surestart, ect and actually built affording houses, especially council housing which has been sold off at a much higher rate than it has been replaced since Right to Buy was introduced.

It is also worth noting that despite immigrants from the EU on average being better qualified than people in the UK, 60% of immigrants from places such as France and Germany have degrees, and 25% of immgrants from Countries such as Poland have degrees, they do the jobs we in this Country don't want to do. Do you want to be a cleaner in a hotel? Or work in afield all day? These jobs are sneered at by British people, the same British people who then when someone comes to do the work they don't want start to complain people are taking their jobs

I know it's a struggle, but do try to stay on point. You made a specific comment about EU immigration benefiting UK science and R&D. I responded by citing the arguments of a man who runs a huge R&D operation and finds the in-built discrimination in favour of EU immigration burdensome. If you have anything at all to say on the substance of the matter I'd be happy to respond to it.

Unless your researchers have Nobel Prizes in government funding then their arguments are no more authoritative, let alone compelling, than those of anyone else who fears losing the flow of redistributed UK taxpayers' money from the EU at the hands of an elected Westminster government.

Labour represents a series of believes and ideals, an ideology, and people vote for that ideology. Labour's ideology is best described, imo, as democratic internationalist socialism, the believe that we achieve more together than alone, and that we achieve more as a internationalists than we achieve by being isolationists. This includes being pro-immigration (and pro-migration, allowing British people to easily be able to live abroad should they wish to).